Curated category
British styles of music
- Neo soulKedar Massenburg coined the term neo soul in the late 1990s to market and describe a style of music emerging from traditional R&B.
- Hip houseThe year 1986 marked the pressing of a vinyl record titled Rok da House by a British group called Beatmasters. This track featured a rap duo named Cookie…
- New wave musicSeymour Stein launched a campaign in October 1977 to replace the word punk with new wave. He was the founder of Sire Records and believed that calling bands…
- HyperpopIn 2013, A. G. Cook launched the record label and art collective known as PC Music in London. This small group of artists laid the groundwork for what would…
- Heavy metal musicIn 1968, three British bands named Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple formed to create a sound that would define a new genre.
- Industrial musicIn 1913, Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo published The Art of Noises. This manifesto argued that the sounds of a modern industrial society should become music.
- Beat musicThe term beat music emerged from the fading waves of late 1950s rock and roll. Ernest Borneman, a German anthropologist living in England between 1933 and…